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Apprentice Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 195

made an alias. i called it 'sketch'

Magician Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 482

alias? this is what first comes to mind.

Wizard Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 1551 Location: Australia

It seems the @xxx = y syntax for global variables is broken, which is odd because the $xxx = y syntax works for local variables.

So I would say that @xxy = y syntax will be fixed, but temporarily do what edb suggests.

One final thing to note is string lists must be enclosed in curly braces now - so the proper syntax (when fixed) should be @ritualsketch = {di|ci|pe|st|ma|tr|cr|su}

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:50 am

I can't imagine @xxx = y working as expected. Surely that will expand xxx and then set the expanded contents to y so for instance if xxx contains zzz then @xxx = y will actually set zzz to y.

Magician Joined: 09 Oct 2003 Posts: 459 Location: USA

I'm having the problem where I cannot send a period through an alias. so, totally unrelated.

Magician Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 482

CMUD hates periods now LOL.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

It will be a little while before I get to testing on this. Perhaps another Guru can test all the different ways in which a period is used in scripts and add something to the Known Issues threads.

Magician Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 482

Well its more of a point of the Syntax checker hates them and will bomb a script that has it. Much like now <SEND>blah blah</send> is now ~<Send~>blah blah ~</send~> or the syntax checker wont let it slide. Specifically in the editor window.

In other situations it works fine like
%i.ID etc.

Wizard Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 1551 Location: Australia

I think the theory is you need to enclose stuff like <send>blah blah</send> in double-quotes to say it's a string... probably the same deal with the period?

Magician Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 482

if you enclose <SEND> in quotes you get <SEND> instead of the mxp version of it. Its part of this new dont expand within quotes thing or whatever. I am still getting used to some of the newer syntaxs

Wizard Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 1551 Location: Australia

Try using { } then ... "" is copy text as is, and I think { } is copy text expanded.

Magician Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 482

It was supposed to be.. Im working it out now its part of the same script so you will see but its a "WEIRD" issue to say the least. ~. doesnt escape it. and ~<SEND> used to be the normal but now it requires the > to have one too. Really Strange. Its ok doesnt bother me it works both ways but the EDITOR syntax checker wont let it pass.

Beginner Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Posts: 20

I am confused here...

Normaly you want to do

stringlist = {a|b|c|d|}

NOT

@stringlist = {a|b|c|d}

@variable is only used when you want the variable to expand, not when you are creating it....

Why is nobody catching this? Edit: wait thats what Taz said... ignor me.

Wizard Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 1551 Location: Australia

Ok, sorry I confused you, I never use the xxx = y syntax so naturally guessed that @xxx = y would be the correct syntax.

So, ritualsketch = {di|ci|pe|st|ma|tr|cr|su} is the correct syntax then.